Epocdigest V1 # 455

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tips for Posting to the Digest and how to unsubscribe

at the end of the Digest

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Epoc Digest Mon, 23 Feb 2004 Volume 01 : Number 455

************************************************************************

Sent to: 787 subscribers

In today's Epoc Digest 14 messages:

==============================

- Re: Psion emulator questions

- eMail Clients - Mac?

- Re: Converting TR1 to TR2

- email application, Operating system, Nothing hotter than Potter,

- Re: Euro on a web page

- Re: TomeRaider # 454 (2)

- Agendas/Web on 5MX

- Re: Psion emulator questions &Potter, Psion

- Emulator problems, Getting old!, ExAb, Compuserve Cologne numbers,

- Psion emulator tips

- Re: Mobipocket and ExAb conflict

- Russian Dictionary (K2/K9) - from Russian speaker

- Spam, Power-off, musings on foldable technology, cell-phone connections.

- Spam

*++++++++++&

Date: 21 Feb 2004 13:39:37 +0000

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: Re: Psion emulator questions

Howdy!

Antony wrote (> ):

> As for the OPX, I'm sure you could download

> it, or even search you psion for it.

That won't work. OPX files have to be compiled for the processor they're meant to run on. The only way you're going to get an OPL application which uses an OPX to run on the simulator is to get hold of a WINS version of the OPX.

In some cases, the software developer or the developer of the OPX will have compiled a WINS version, in other cases there's no way to run the program under the simulator. Hopefully, someone else will chip in with a current URL for WINS OPX files. I'm sure someone has collected them all somewhere. Software written in C++ won't run on the simulator at all.

> I think the email application on EPOC is quite

> poor and is tolerable thanks to the various macros

> available to enhance it.

i suppose that depends on your definition of poor. It's stable, it's easy to configure and easy and intuitive to use and it doesn't allow nasty stuff to exploit the machine. In that way it's quite good. It is rather poorly featured compared to most desktop based e-mail applications, but then unlike many (most?) of us on this digest, Psion never really intended the machines as standalone computers. That's a pity because they were so near to acheiving it. With the addition of Rolf's REM and Sergio's SaveMail, the EPOC e-mail application actually becomes one of the most versatile around and thankfully, it doesn't send RTF or HTML e-mails.

> I would not recommend using the EPOC emulator on a

> Windows machine for anything other than software

> development and a means to access backed up

> information without converting it. Some may

> disagree, but hey, what's new.

With the aid of EpocSync, you can actually use the simulator as a spare Psion or even use it as your home machine with a 5(mx) or Revo/Mako as your portable. Personally, I don't bother. I'm quite happy typing on the 5mx or Rako and on a boat, the power consumption of the WindoZe notebook is always a problem so I use it as little as possible.

Owen

Thought for the day:

Today's thought omitted because of budget cuts.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-928°14.86'N 16°50.54'W

Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Spain: +34 620520079

In Norway: +47 92053097

*++++++++++&

Date: 21 Feb 2004 14:21:34 +0000

From: Philip S. Adkins Potter

Subject: eMail Clients - Mac?

Hi Folks,

Pegasus looks to be great for Micros**t owners!

But I've got a Mac. Is there a decent eMail client that doesn't download everything first for Mac OS 8.6 (that's the most modern Operating System my Mac will run)?

An account my ISP refuses to close (never used in anger now) is getting swamped by the SWEN virus on other peoples machines and I'd like an eMail client that can deal with this on the Mac - it takes forever on the Psion. It's not a problem for me now but it *might* be, and maybe soon, maybe not.

But I'd really like to find one before I need it. I haven't yet.

Happy days,

Phil.

"Practical politics is the art of ignoring the obvious."

*++++++++++&

Date: 21 Feb 2004 23:05:09 +0000

From: Armin Podtschaske

Subject: Re: Converting TR1 to TR2

Hi Martin!

If you open an TR1-file with TR2, the file is converted automaticly to TR2. TR2 pops up a small status window for some seconds to inform that the conversion has happened.

Best regards,

Armin Podtschaske

*++++++++++&

Date: 21 Feb 2004 23:43:32 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: email application, Operating system, Nothing hotter than Potter,

Answer to: Antony

Re.: email application - You wrote that this application is "quite poor". Why do you think so ? I actually am very happy with it and use it for almost all of my personal emailing. I can decide what to download and what not as well as avoid being attacked by virusses.

Re. Operating system - EPOC does not exist anymore, it is now Symbian v. X, and owned by Symbian. Psion have just announced they will sell all their stock of Symbian shares to Nokia so they will not have access to the Symbian OS anymore. As to the netBook Pro, I suppose it is geared towards the corporate market where the vast majority of Companies use Windows based software and applications and I suppose it was good business sense to change their operating system for the nB Pro to WindowsCE. Without this step they would have had to invest heavily in making the synchronisation perfect, having to adapt to each and every new step of Microsoft (trying to make life for those synchronising with their OS as difficult as possible).

Answer to: Will Green

Re. Nothing hotter than Potter - Interesting reading, but I don't think you are right. Psion did bring out a new PDA but it was the netPad which fitted well in their line of rigid industrial products. They are now with Teklogic in the industrial / corporate market and I don't see they have the organisation to get back to the PDA personal market. You need a lot more for that than just a production line. You need R&D, staff, marketing, sales, etc. etc.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 09:26:42 +0000

From: Neil Thompson

Subject: Re: Euro on a web page

You should be able to type either € or € in your html and get a euro symbol. This should be the most predictable way of getting results.

And just in case you are unfortunate enough to get this message as HTML and all you get is the symbol it is: ampersand hash (or gate if your are from US) 8364 semi-colon.

Neil

---

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 09:58:36 +0000

From: vlad a

Subject: Re: TomeRaider # 454 (2)

>> The TR2 format was supposed to have better compression.... >> version of TR that could convert the files from TR1 to TR2?

> I have noticed that TR installs two different apps folders in the System/Apps > folder. I have deleted one with no deleterious effect.

> Can't remember which

TR puts indeed two instances in the icon-bar and has two folders in

System/apps:

- /TR2 (contains: tr2.set2, tr2.fop, tr2.ini, tr2.rsc, tr2.set - all these

with question-marks as icon; tr2.app, tr2.aif, help.tr - with the TR icon;

- /tomeraider (contains: tomeraider.aif and .app - both with the TR icon)

I also remember having deleted the second one, but the app wouldn't start then.

TR Support replied in 2002:

> By default when you install TomeRaider the TomeRaider 2 icon is

> visible and there is a second hidden icon you should never see. It sounds

> like NoMore is getting confused and changing this.

I have NoMore no more in the meantime (a utility which hides uneeded icons

from the bar), but the two icons are still visible.

Could the trogrammers in here kindly look ino that and explain those

suffixes and which of them are useful for what or useless?

And yes, tr2 automatically converts old TR docs in the tr2 format on opning them for the first time.

best,

vlad a

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 10:28:11 +0000

From: Greg Crayford

Subject: Agendas/Web on 5MX

Hi everybody,

I have a couple of wee issues with my 5MX which someone is bound to be able to solve.

Over the last nine years of Psion agenda use I have created a new file for each year, merging in all anniversaries from the previous year. This was great because I remembered everybody's birthdays (which is a good thing). Since 2002 that hasn't worked. For some reason the anniversaries didn't show in the new file. I must say that the fact that it's only once a year doesn't help matters as I have to re-teach myself every year how to do it (I'm a bear of very little brain). What I would like to do is to create a 2004 file with all anniversaries from the 2001 year merged in (2001 was the last year I could view all the entries).

Can anyone help?

One other thing, My 5MX hard reset itself a while ago and I've been slow to re-input all my settings. Today when I did I found that Web wasn't running. It said that the file was corrupt. Since this was a fresh install due to the hard reset I'm quite surprised. I didn't notice it until after re-installation of Piano, Phoneman Pro, Trivia plus a bunch of internet settings. I don't know whether it would have been corrupt before they were installed. I've not yet re-installed Opera and don't want to go any further since I may have to hard reset again.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance. :-)

Greg Crayford

Wellington, New Zealand

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 12:03:02 +0000

From: Chris S Handley

Subject: Re: Psion emulator questions &Potter, Psion

Subject: Re: Psion emulator questions

Chris S Handley wrote:

> However, I think you will probably give-up in the end. If

> this happens, then you might like to consider a simpler

> alternative - "synchronise" using a CompactFlash.

> My method (which is not real synchronisation) involves

> backing-up my Psion to a CF, then restoring Documents (and a

> few special System files) to the Emulator drive, or vice

> versa. The down side of this is that YOU CANNOT USE THE

> EMULATOR AND PSION AT THE SAME TIME.

> Someone could slightly modify EpocSync to do (true)

> bi-directional syncing using a CF card, but please don't look

> at me :-)

Having just said that, I thought "that should be easy to add to FastBackup", and actually went ahead and did it! Now, don't get too excited, because "synchronisation via Compact Flash" is not nearly as quick'n'easy as doing it with EpocSync. But it is there if absolutely no other option exists (as in the case of the Emulator).

The "Synchronisation" mode of FastBackup is still rather EXPERIMENTAL, but given my experience writing file-level synchronisation software on the Amiga OS, I am fairly confident it will work as I expect. Which is to say, it still has the major limitation of EpocSync, where deleted files are simply re-created again unless deleted on BOTH machines first.

Logically speaking, a *complete* synchronisation using this method will require FastBackup to be run 3 times! First on one machine with the CF card in, then putting the CF card in the other machine & running FastBackup again, before finally returning the CF card & using FastBackup a final time.

Quite laborious huh? Well, the good news is that if you DON'T need total synchronisation, then you can get away with running FastBackup just twice. If you do this fairly frequently then neither machine will have files that are too dated.

BTW, this functionality will be available in the third release of FastBackup, which is scheduled for the following weekend (i.e. at the end of this month).

---

Chris Handley

P.S. If you would like to talk to me about this functionality before it is released, please email using the address shown on the web page email.cshandley.co.uk

===========

Subject: RE: Potter, Psion

Arent Kits van Heijningen wrote:

> indeed Psion has now completely divested itself from both

> Symbos 16 as well as Symbos 32 and is now a *CE-only shop (

Well, at the moment anyway. Who knows what Psion is planning for the future? (well, Linux for a start:)

> And the future of Symbian now that Nokia is

> in the driver's seat ? My estimated guess is that Nokia is

> in a position to completely close off the native ( C++/OPL )

> API's leaving Java as the only option for third-party

> applications

Arent, we can always count on you for the, errr, controversial opinion :)

What I'd like to know is *why* Nokia would want to do this? I mean, it's completely mad:

Nokia looks set to become the majority Symbian shareholder (subject to regulatory approval), thus gaining majority control of Symbian OS. If developers write C++ apps for Symbian OS, they are tying themselves to the platform that Nokia own, which is good for Nokia (if no-one else).

Nokia do not control Java even slightly, so anything can happen to Java and apps written in Java can work on competitors Smart Phones just as easily! So Nokia may provide Java to attract developers, but they sure as hell would prefer developers to use Symbian OS directly!

So why on earth would Nokia somehow "close off" C++ to developers, limiting them to the slow & memory hungry Java system that will work just as well on Pocket PC & PalmOS phones?

As far as I can see (and I am willing to be proved wrong), you are continuing the peddle the same illogical pro-Microsoft FUD which others on this Digest have previously demonstrated as fantasy. :-(

[note to the uninitiated: "FUD" stands for "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt", and has been a classic (and highly successful) Microsoft tactic to undermine their competitors in the past.]

> This is now already happening with their 3G

> offerings such as the 6650 and the 7600 Smartphones with

> open Symbian will remain available for years to come but

Eh, sorry? While I can't profess to follow every model Nokia releases, and so cannot comment on your alledged proof, even Nokia's barely released 6600 (which seems to be selling like very hot cakes) contains both JAR & SIS support.

If either of the phones you mention DOESN'T allow SIS installation, but does provide JAR installation, I imagine there are some very good device-niche/market-sector reasons - totally unrelated to your proposition. If this is so, then hopefully Rolf or someone just as knowledgable will explain why.

> eventually supplies will dry up and people have to move to

> other platforms , just as has happened with Psion ( this will

> - however -take a much longer time than with Psion , as the

Of course if it takes long enough, the (false) gradual decline you imply would not be visible at the moment to most people - so that they are just left with the (false) nagging doubt/FUD that their beloved platform is going to disappear. Microsoft couldn't have created a better scare tactic!

> numbers will be much larger, unless MicroSoft successfully

> exerts its intellectual property rights on key parts of the

> OS )

<sigh> why do you keep raising this old piece of crock? Exactly WHICH particular IP are you refering? Unless you can point to SPECIFIC items, you are just spreading FUD.

It is true that Symbian OS does use a few pieces of non-owned IP for inter-operability with other platforms, but these are hardly critical to the platform itself!

So you could try to use Microsoft's recent attempt to claim royalties for FAT16 as evidence for your proposition, but in truth it (a) affects everyone not just Symbian OS, and (b) is a really old piece of technology that wouldn't be around much longer anyway. There are many similarities with the stupid GIF-patent royalty thing, and you will note that it had virtually no effect on the IT world other than to hasten the adoption of a modern, superior & open-source alternative (PNG).

>>> A sub-notebook is the like of the netBook ? Certainly a

>>> "miniature keyboard" is not a replacement of the

>>> 5MX ?

> The market niche for a pocketable keyboarded machine has now

> been taken up by Sony with the PEG-UX and Sharp with the SL-B

> and SL-C models , not to mention the RIM Blackberry

That argument doesn't hold since the Netbook *isnt* a pocketable machine! And Psion seems to think their is a big opportunity for a Linux-based Netbook-like machine...

> A bigger threat to the PDA/smartphone will be the

> ultrapersonal computer , a PDA or ( large i.e brick-style )

> smartphone-sized PC ( PC as in Apple Mac or IBM -compatible )

> ,these will run standard PC operating systems and

> applications and use standard PC peripherals

The problem as always is that these "micro PCs" *do* use standard OSes (such as WindowsXP); OSes which were never designed to work in the "instant off/on" style of PDAs, and for which no amount of kludging will make them seriously usable as a PDA.

Just look at Tablet PCs. Even with Hibernation mode, they take forever to start-up (30 seconds), and nearly as long to shut down. And if they run in Stand-By mode, they eat batteries for breakfast (lasting perhaps a day if fully charged - which of course they never will be). Utterly unusable as a PDA!

And don't forget the weight; all those MBs of RAM, GBs of HD space, large Intel CPU with requisite fan, and assoicated chipset that are all required to get Windows to run at barely acceptable speed just increase the weight, reduce the reliability, increase the size, and increase the fragility of the device.

This is where Symbian OS excels - it was designed from the bottom-up as a fully-flegded computer OS thats also ideal for use on PDA with limited hardware. Even WinCE comes a very poor second design-wise.

Regards,

Chris Handley

P.S. I really don't think embedded Linux is any better than WinCE for PDAs, but thats another argument entirely.

P.P.S. If at any point in this email I am rather blunt with you, it is only because you seem to keep repeating the SAME old rubbish without providing any factual basis. I would expect the same treatment on a WinCE Digest if I *repeatedly* blithely claimed Symbian OS was going to be the defacto SmartPhone OS & Microsoft was going to abandon their Pocket PC OS - without any proof. Such behaviour comes remarkably close to trolling... And I suspect many Digest members will agree with me on this.

P.P.P.S. You're on-line nick isn't Golmert is it? ;-)

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 12:15:23 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Emulator problems, Getting old!, ExAb, Compuserve Cologne numbers,

Answer to: All

Re.: Emulator problems - I noticed I still have in my Savemail inbox an email from October 2002 that Keith sent me with details how to set-up the emulator and a zip file with a lot of the OPX files for the emulator. If anyone is interested in these details, send me an email off digest. I'll wait a week or so and than send it out to everybody who asked for a copy.

Answer to: Owen H. Morgan

Re.: Getting old! - I joined after you, it was when Compuserve decided to stop te separate Psion dedicated forum and incorporated it in the more general Palmtop forum with just one section for Psion. The closely knitted group disappeared, "after hours" disappeared and soon the forum was totally uninteresting for Psion users. I am also amazed that the digest is still going strong, but I suppose it is partially also a group of "cyber-friends" that like to keep in contact. Besides, also amazingly, from time to time I still find new software for my Psions, new ideas aand new solutions to problems. After all those years, even though not in production anymore, the platform is still very much alive !

Re. ExAb - His name is Huub Linthorst. His website is http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~linthorsthjm/exabetal

Answer to: Carlos Rodriguez

Re. Compuserve Cologne numbers - Thanks, I had that old number as well, but when I dial it I get the message that the number has not been recognised. Any info ?

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 12:42:06 +0000

From: Peter Rand

Subject: Psion emulator tips

Hi,

Thanks to all those who took the time to answer my emulator-related questions.

Slowly but surely things are starting to work like I want them to work. --

Chris S Handley wrote:

It sounds like you have simply copied your entire System folder from your real

Psion onto the Emulator... THIS IS A REALLY BAD IDEA!

Fortunately I backed up all the emulator settings before I copied the system folder,

so there's no irreparable harm done.

I urge you to delete the System folder and start from scratch, manually configuring it like

your existing Psion, installing WINS versions of the relevant applications & OPXes, etc.

Thanks, I'm in the process of this now.

All of the Psion's built-in apps work great, plus I also have running on the emulator:

Crypto (WINS)

dCalc

Editor

Lingo

PsiDat (WINS)

SameGame

Smuggers

SysBack

TestMe

WinMail

I'd be curious to hear what other apps run well on the emulator.

Unfortunately, I have been unable to get a Zip/unzip app working under the emulator.

Have you had any luck there?

If you really wish to tempt fate (by not installing from scratch) then I *think* you can get rid of the problem you mention by

deleting the C:\System\Apps\Shell\SHELL.ini file. Beware that you will lose some other settings too.

Yep, that did the trick! The softscreen icons now call up the proper programs. Thanks again for pointing this out.

In fact, someone recommended making all OPXs Read-Only once you have (correctly) installed WINS versions,

so that they are not accidentally overwritten by an SIS installer.

Excellent idea. One website even suggests reinstalling PsiDat (WINS) after installing new software, since

PsiDat (WINS) has a fairly complete collection of WINS opx'es.

how to sync with the Psion using EpocSync?

You can't, unless you somehow manage to get the Emulator to correctly

use the IR port of your laptop...... It SHOULD be possible to EpocSync over a real serial cable, but you might find messing with cables tedious :( --

I've given up on EpocSync. My notebook doesn't

have a serial port, so I use a USB2--> serial adapter to use PsiWin with my Series 7. But I guess accessing a USB port is beyond what EpocSync was designed to do.

It would be nice to figure out how to use EpocSync with the notebook's

IR port,

but I haven't had any luck there.

My method (which is not real synchronisation) involves backing-up my

Psion to a CF, then restoring Documents (and a few special System

files) to the Emulator drive, or vice versa. The down side of this

is that YOU CANNOT USE THE EMULATOR AND PSION AT THE SAME TIME.

This is exactly the solution I came up with as well: I use 'Fast Backup'

to save all my working documents and files to an SD card on the

Series 7 "E" drive. I then insert the SD card in the notebook, which has

a 4-in-1 card reader, and copy the backup directory to the emulator drive. Going the other direction, I copy the files on the emulator to the SD card, insert the SD

card in the Series 7, and do a "restore" to C using Fast Backup.

The whole process only takes a minute or two.

how to cut&paste data between the Emulator and WinXP etc?

You can't, sorry. I have been toying with the idea of fixing this

myself, but I don't know when I will have the time (maybe this year

if you are lucky!).

That would be great - a sort of "CopyAnywhere" function

that integrates Emulator data with the rest of the notebook.

I would like to also use as many other Psion apps on the notebook

as possible, since I prefer them to the default apps.

-Hey, someone else with good taste (like me;-)

Call it what you like: good taste, far-sightedness, intelligence... :-)

I love Jotter, Word, Agenda etc., and want to keep using them because

they do exactly what I want.

You can get a lot of WINS OPXes from Symbian's site. There are a FEW

C++ apps which the author has releases as a WINS version, e.g.

PdfPrinter (essential!), EPlayM (not really useful), PhoneMan Pro,

Crypto, and probably a few others I forgot (look at my Pda Street

posts)

---

PhoneMan Pro works on the emulator, IR and all? Thanks, that's

a tip that's well worth chasing down.

4. Is it possible to use Mail and Web in the Emulator to connect

> > with the Internet via the notebook's internal modem?

> Yes, it is very possible - in fact, I am using Email right now! The

> trick is to tell Windows to put your Modem on COM1 or COM2 (which

> translates to Serial port 0 or 1 on the Emulator). I use COM2, as I

> tried to put IR on COM1 (which I believe is where the Emulator

> expects the IR port to be).

How do I tell Windows to put my modem on COM2? I played around

with the network settings, but couldn't see how to do this.

For those interested, I'm now using Mozilla 1.6 for emailing and web-browsing.

Mozilla is a very user-friendly, freeware software suite.

Off to check PDA street for Chris' emulator tips.

Regards,

Peter

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 15:07:55 +0000

From: "Chris Holly"

Subject: Re: Mobipocket and ExAb conflict

Owen Morgan wrote:

>I seem to remember the author of ExAb is a digest member. >Did you try e-mailing him? Seems like a nice guy, so I'm sure >he'll do his best to help you.

Thanks, Owen. The programmer is Huub Linthorst, but I did not want to bother him if I was the only one experiencing a problem. and I was not able to email him last time I tried, but I think that might have been an Opera glitch.

I turned off a setting that allowed serial copying and that seems to have solved the problem, as long as I stick with Ctrl C and Ctrl V. I'm just grateful there is so much fine software out there still for my 5mx and netBook. I find myself using them more and more as I learn these various tools. --Chris Holly

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 15:10:54 +0000

From: "Victor E.Kviat"

Subject: Russian Dictionary (K2/K9) - from Russian speaker

Hi All,

K2 and K9 are freeware dictionaries and encyclopaedias shells for EPOC ER3 and ER5. K2 is advanced and improved release of K9, but it does not support ER3.

The main difference between them is that K2 supports pictures in articles, has better multilanguage support (chars from several languages can be displayed in one screen), correct sorting for all languages, improved search (also in articles), full screen view for encyclopaedias, text design in articles, crosslinks, database manager, can use compressed (zip and bzip2) databases.

With K9 you need to have full or partial Cyrillic support (system fonts) installed. See www.zavorine.com.

With K2 you do not need to have full Cyrillic support installed but only non-system Cyrillic fonts (you can keep your original fonts) that you can also download from www.zavorine.com.

Only if you want to be able to enter Cyrillic characters in search fields of K2 or K9 then the full Cyrillic support (keyboard driver and fonts) is needed in both cases.

Both programs have MakeDict (separate download) utilities that can be used to design your own dictionaries. Contact authors Robin Hand King Mifor details.

Downloads K9:

ER5: http://www.mypsion.ru/files/k-9.zip

ER3: http://www.mypsion.ru/files/k-9_er3.zip

WINS: http://www.mypsion.ru/files/k-9wins.zip

Dictionaries (links to articles about correspondent dictionaries, direct dowload links are at the end of each article):

Eng-Rus Big: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1331

Eng-Rus and Rus-Eng 2-in-1: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1056 Eng-Rus idioms: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1443

Esp-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1219

Ita-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1144

Rus-Fre and Fre-Rus 2-in-1: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1115 Ger-Rus Big: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1337

Ger-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1143

Fin-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1142

Swe-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1145

Downloads K2:

Full: http://www.mypsion.ru/download.php?k2.zip

Lite: http://www.mypsion.ru/download.php?k2lite.zip

WINS: http://www.mypsion.ru/download.php?k2wins.zip

Locales for Lite: http://www.mypsion.ru/download.php?locales.zip Dictionaries (links to articles about correspondent dictionaries, direct dowload links are at the end of each article):

Eng-Rus Big: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1488

Eng-Rus and Rus-Eng 2-in-1: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1489 Eng-Rus idioms: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1491

Esp-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1495

Ita-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1497

Ger-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1501

Fra-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1635

Fin-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1513

Swe-Rus: http://www.mypsion.ru/base.php?aid=1514

There many dictionaries and encyclopeadias available for these programs (more that 150 and the list is still growing) but they are in Russian mostly. I provided here links to dictionaries from Foreign to Russian but many dictionaries from Russian to Foreign are also available.

Best regards,

Victor Kviat a.k.a. VKV

(Powered by TheBat! Mail Cliehttp://vkvplace.da.ru

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 19:05:17 +0000

From: Trygve Henriksen

Subject: Spam, Power-off, musings on foldable technology, cell-phone connections.

Greetings!

Itamar wrote:

> Re.: Spamache - Just go a report from them. In 4 days their server

> checked 214 messages in my mailboxes and removed 148 messages

> as spam, that is 41% !! What would you do if 41% of your post was

> "spam" ?

Actually, a quick calculation shows that 148 out of 214 is 69.16%

(Something really goofy happens with those reports)

I'm afraid that estimates by the larger filtering services is that more than 50% of all mail traffic is spam.

I sometimes examine the headers of the messages that Spamache doesn't remove, to track them to their source.

sometimes I find a open or hijacked mail server, and then I usually alert the owner of the server. Sometimes they do something about it...

If the mail originated in S. Korea or China, I often forward it to an ambassador, explaining that this kindis causing them lots of negative publicity and that it has resulted in many ISP's blocking everything from their countries, making it impossible for the legit companies to do business....

> Re. Power-off mBook - Last night I left the office with a fully charged

> mBook, closed. I opened it some 4 hours later to find the battery on

> 11.5 v and Chadisk showing 3.9 hours of "use".

An alarm, possibly?

Owen wrote:

> Can someone remember what date the original S5 arrived on the market?

Late summer of 1997, with the first machines reaching Norway in December that year. (The second batch, from which mine came, arrived in January 1998)

> Thought for the day:

> Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.

Don't forget wine...

-----

Antony wrote:

> There is a solution with the keyboards by having a soft keyboard that

> is foldable

Rubber keyboards sounds like a good idea, but...

The only rubber keyboard I've ever really enjoyed is the one on the Psion S3 series. And up until now, they've all had a stiff backing.

Having 'soft' keyboards, without the backing may be a flop in more ways than one... (You'll always have to search out a flat surface to use it on)

>and now there is technology being developed to create 'floppy screens'.

I can't wait for those to hit the market.

I wonder if it'll be possible for amateur 'tinkerers' to get hold of them.

I've also heard that they're REALLY 'low power', too.

What they should do is take a small S5 like keyboard, fold it so that the top rows folds over the lower rows, not right over left as the optional keyboards for the Palm and winCE machines, thereby creating a long, slim shape(.6" x 1.5" x 8" or so) and place the rolled up screen in the top part. The reason for that folding method is that the width of the machine defines the width of the screen.

(The top must be ticker than the bottom, and the 'cut' diagonal to create a nice sloping keyboard)

To further save space, the screen can be rolled around the batteries...

Unfortunately, I don't think it'll be possible to get flexible touch-screens for a while yet. (It'll take another layer of plastic. Just try to glue two sheets of plastic together, then roll them into a tight roll...)

> If this is the case, potentially there could be phones with screens that

> can be pulled out like a projector screen

Then the manufacturers might even make phones large enough again...

-----

Axel Moberg wrote about his MC218:

> My question is whether there is some other way to connect it to a

> mobile phone (apart from the latest version that has bluetooth),

> preferably a modern one. The connector cable to the PC is some

> kind of serial cable, after all. Could that be used somehow?

I connect my netBook to my Siemens M50 cell-phone using the 'PsiWin' cable, a Siemens 'data-cable' and a Null-modem.

It ends up as a rather long cable, but it works...

Note that phones that can be connected with serial cables seems to be a dying breed...

:-)

Trygve

*++++++++++&

Date: 22 Feb 2004 19:32:55 +0000

From: Andy Hayes

Subject: Spam

Hi All

I am sure that Itamar's 41% spam will raise some eyebrows. Mostly because many are going to report higher numbers. Not untypically I just downloaded my emails - 75 - of which 4 were NOT spam. I expect to receive up to 200 spam messages on a normal day. I am going to go against conventional wisdom though and change my email address. I have other webmail email accounts and one has not received a single spam email in over a year, whereas another has only ever received one. My downfall was probably posting my address in the newsgroups ages ago.

I am now working PC-less and have no access to my address book that is in Outlook. Can one of you netPad users tell me what the rating is of your PSUs. For some reason mine is no longer charging beyond 28% and I can't figure why as the battery degradation is reported to be low - 2%.